Chapter 22 3. Shoulders of iron shoulders, morality and justice, and true feelings in hands

He shot heavily, but sincerely; he worked hard, but never found out. This is the character and style of the writer Zhao Yu as a man and a writer.For more than ten years, he has been active in the Chinese literary arena, and he is willing to dedicate his flesh and blood as a sacrifice to the altar of China's reform. Now, he is walking towards us holding the jewels refined with his sincere painstaking efforts. Ten years ago, when Zhao Yu was still a young man in his early thirties, he submitted his extraordinary reportage work "Taihang Mountain Break" to the editorial department of "Chinese Writers".The manuscript has been released as proof, and we reluctantly withdrew it due to some factors at the time when we were in the second school.So, Zhao Yu and "Chinese Writer" magazine brushed past each other.A full ten years later, Zhao Yu came to us again holding his "Investigation of Ma Jiajun".Will it pass by this time?

Undoubtedly, this long reportage "Investigation of Ma Jiajun" with a length of more than 400,000 words and a theme of Ma Jiajun's glory and sorrow is quite a risky work.The risk is that the subject matter itself is a matter of public concern, and it is inevitable that a hundred secrets will be neglected; moreover, in the eyes of some people, there is no room for detailed analysis behind the Chinese sports gold medal.From the 1980s to the 1990s, it was not uncommon for journalists and writers to encounter turmoil because they questioned what was behind the gold medal.Some friends in the sports world, while reaping sports gold medals, they also reaped barbarism, reaped great achievements, and some even reaped deception, reaped low cultural taste, and developed an extremely unhealthy mindset.Any sports reporter with a conscience, any writer with a sense of morality, cannot avoid the harsh reality of Chinese sports, and they all demand that Chinese sports speed up the process of reform.Yes, we have undoubtedly entered an era of political clarity, but in order to uphold justice, uphold justice, and seek justice, we still need to make the determination and preparation to sacrifice ourselves.And Zhao Yu is a writer who knows the danger and rises up, he dares to write.So, who dares to publish it for him?

This time, "Chinese Writer" magazine is not going to pass by Zhao Yu. "Investigation of Ma Jiajun" is a rare literary work that has been seen for many years. It is an extraordinary and good work, which marks that the creation of reportage literature in our country has reached a new level.Perhaps in the last two years before 2000, it would be difficult to produce such soul-stirring works.Yes, Zhao Yu's "Investigation of Ma Jiajun" is extremely heavy-handed. It does not write about the great achievements of Ma Jiajun in general, but puts Ma Jiajun in the context of my country's transition from a planned economy to a market economy, and places it in the soil of Chinese culture. Perform dissection.It has a very complete feature of reportage - it has the reporting nature of news without pursuing pure news; it has a very strong literary quality without pursuing pure literature. "Majiajun Investigation" combines news and literature in a very appropriate way, so that readers can have a complete understanding of the occurrence, development and ending of real things, and at the same time enjoy the pleasure of artistic aesthetics.The objective narration of the work guarantees the authenticity of the work. From the logic of life to the logic of art, there is a strong co-existence, which makes people have to trust sincerely that the author leads us into this place full of blood, tears and sweat, rough and A world where success and failure are shared by glory and sorrow.What Zhao Yu emphasized was his sincere feelings for Ma Junren, a national hero, and he was written vividly and truly, truly a living national hero.Of course, just as other heroes cannot be perfect, Ma Junren cannot be a perfect hero either.After reading the works, we are also moved and infected by Zhao Yu's true feelings for Ma Jiajun and many outstanding figures in the Liaoning sports world.

As far as Zhao Yu's creation is concerned, he no longer has the extremes he wrote in the 1980s when he wrote "But I Can't See Kyushu", "The Crucial Point of China", "Taihang Mountain Break", "Dream of a Strong Country", and "Defeated in Seoul". It is full of historical, objective and cultural wisdom.As far as my country’s reportage creation in the last two decades is concerned, “Ma Jiajun Investigation” also lacks the strong sense of political criticism in the early stage and the strong sense of social criticism in the middle stage, but is only full of the dignified sense of cultural criticism in the recent period.The revival of cultural critical awareness marks that the creation of reportage literature in our country has entered a deeper level of reflection with the maturity of the Chinese nation itself.This is the introspection of national culture, and this is the most fundamental introspection.This is the essential basis for the ideological and material preparations for the Chinese nation to maturely enter the 21st century.If Zhao Yu's "Dream of a Strong Country", "Defeat in Seoul" and "Investigation of Ma's Army" are his Chinese sports trilogy, then this third part really enables us to understand Chinese sports and go out of China physical education.

It is true that Zhao Yu's current cultural reflection is very different from that of some reportage writers including Zhao Yu in the late 1980s.At that time, those writers attempted to criticize farming culture with marine culture, and then replaced native Chinese culture with marine culture to revive the Chinese nation.In fact, this is a naive and simple reflection.History has long concluded that no foreign culture can replace Chinese culture, and only when foreign culture is absorbed and transformed by Chinese culture and integrated into Chinese culture can it contribute to the revival of China.We have read Zhao Yu's mature consciousness from "Investigation of Ma Jiajun", so it is also clear that this is a mature reportage work.

The reportage writers in the 1990s, here refers to the reportage writers in the true sense, tirelessly explored the creative methods of reportage, and tried to explore and express the living conditions of people in our era by means of sociology and new journalism. And mental state, and then promote the development and civilization of our society.However, the facts have proved that a large number of explorations have been unsuccessful or not very successful. Because the audience rate of works of this kind of exploration is extremely low, they are only praised and affirmed in a very small range.

Our "Chinese Writer" published such exploratory works, which were very unsuccessful.However, reportage, a documentary literary style, was recognized worldwide as the reading style with the highest audience rate in the second half of the 20th century.If the audience rate is not high, it proves that the work is not an outstanding work, and the exploration of creative methods is not successful.As for Zhao Yu's "Investigation of the Ma Jiajun", we feel that it must be a work with a very wide readership. Cultural factors, including the ups and downs and all aspects of our country, are the epitome of the reality of our country at this stage. It can observe the various realistic contradictions in our society, and it can explain why the Majiajun was born in China, especially at the end of the 20th century. of China.In other words, only China, only China with its reform and opening up at the end of the 20th century, can produce a unique Ma Jiajun.More strictly speaking, the Ma family army can only be born in Northeast China in this era, because only Chinese culture, especially the regional culture of Northeast China, can breed the Ma family army.Readers will have a strong interest in this work, no matter whether they have an in-depth inquiry attitude or a curious attitude, because it can tell readers many reasons, which is due to the broad coverage and richness of the work. decided.We believe that after reading "Ma Jiajun Investigation", readers will have the same hearty and soul-stirring feeling as we do, and will have the same feeling of enjoying reading as we do, and will never feel disappointed.Because "Ma Jiajun Survey" is a real social spiritual wealth, and the real social spiritual wealth will not disappoint readers.

Since "Investigation of Ma Jiajun" is a work with historical value, social value, cultural value, and literary value, why do we have all kinds of worries when editing and publishing this work? Because although we have made various efforts in the interest of the country and the nation, we may not be able to avoid some criticism and personal attacks when we publish it, just like the story in the book about the coach of Maude Town after his return from the Olympics.In addition, people have limitations, limited by the relationship between stereotyped thinking, vision, and taste. The parties described in the book will definitely have various views and errors in understanding, which are unavoidable. These are all our worries before publishing this work.However, letting a good work lose helplessly from the hands of literary editors and literary journals will be a lifetime regret for a literary editor, and it will be a regret in the history of a literary journal.

"Chinese Writer" has no regrets!